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March 2 ,1926.

Filed April '12.

1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 WITN E55.

ATTO RNEY March 2 1926. 1,575,537

A. BURIAN CHANGE MAKING-AND FARE REGISTERING MACHINE Filed April l2. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 m INVENTOR ATTORNEY 3H illll/llll WITNES Patented Mar. 2, 1926.

PATENT @FFEQE.

ALOIS B URIAN, OF SCHENECT ADY NEW YORK.

CHANGE-MAKING AND FARE-REGISTERING- MACHINE.

Application filed April' 12, 1922. Serial No. 551,946.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALois BURIAN, a citizen of United States, residing at Schenectady, in the county of Schenectady and State of New York, have invented new and useful .Improvements in Change-Making and Fare- Registering Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to change making and fare registering machines, and the principal object is to constructa machine with one coin intake which may receive a coin of any denomination from one cent to one dollar and which will reject the cent and will subtract a fare from the larger coins, returning the correct balance of change if any change is due, and which will at the same operation automatically register the receipt of the fare.

Another object is to construct a device of this kind which shall co-operate by means of electric energy. I V

Another object is to construct a device of this nature which shall be simple of construction, consisting of few parts, easily assembled, cheap to manufacture, and h ghly eflicient for the purpose for which it 18 designed.

With these and other objectsin view, the invention resides in certain novel construction and combination and arrangement of parts, the essential features of which are hereinafter fully described, are particularly pointed out in the appended claim, and are illustrated in the accompanymg drawing, in which v Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of my improved change making machine. Figure 2 is a transverse sectronal v1ew.

Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional v1ew on line 33 of Figure 1. p

Figure 4 is a detail view showing the coin ejecting mechanism.

Figure 5 is a sectional view on the line 5'-5 of Figure 4.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in all views.

While I have described my device as adapted for cars where a five-cent fare is to be collected, it will be readily seen that the "device can he obviously arranged to collect any other fare desired.

Referring to the drawing in detail, 10

represents a casing which may be of any suitable shape and material for the purpose and which is provided with a coin receiving slot 11 and at its bottom with a pocket 12 for returning the change. Secureddiagonally in the frame 10 is a channel bar 13 the bottom of which is perforated and slitted at 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19. The bottom portion is also inclined as clearly shown in Figure 2, so that a coin inserted through the aperture 11 and sliding down the member 13 will be forced by gravity against the wall 13. The apertures 14, 15, 16, 17,18 and 19 correspond in size respectively, to the size of a dime, ccut. nickel, quarter, half dollar and dollar. As the coin passes through one of the apertures it is received by a table or chute 20 and directed toward the front of the machine. Each of the chutes 20 conducts the coins received thereby intoa respective tube 21. i

Each tube 21 has its lower end closed by a transverse portion 22 so as to support the stack of coins. Just above the'member 22 the front and rear of the tube are cut away at 23 so as to form slots which expose one or more of the coins insaid tube so that they may be ejected by the means now to be described.

Secured to the base of the frame 10 which is of wood or other insulating material are U-shaped supports 2:) of soft iron there being one member 25 for each of. the tubes 21. Each member 25 supports a solenoid coil 26 which is provided with a soft iron-core 27 normally held in rearmost position by a spring 28. The front end of the core 27 is provided with a brass finger 29 which is guided by a member 30 into ejecting relation with the coin or coins exposed at 23.- Member 30 is a guard to keep fingerv 29 from turning. It will be readily understood that when the solenoid is energized finger 29 will be moved to effect ejecting of the said coin or coins.

A register is shown at 31, and the details of this are not here described as they are immaterial to the present invention. Any suitable register may be used if provided with means whereby the closing of an electric-circuit will efiect registration or counting.

The tube 21 which receives the cents is not provided with a bottom plate 22, and consequently when a cent is inserted in the machine it pases through aperture 15 and drops completely through the respective tube into the pocket 12. We shall now consider the result \from the insertion of each of the other kind of coins in the machine, presuming that a five cent fare is to be charged.

lVhen a nickel is placed in the machineit drops through the aperture 16 and in pass ing down its respective chute 2O it rides over a pair of electric contacts 32 and 33,50 as to bridge them and effect the closing of the circuit through them. This circuit includes a battery or source of energy 34 in line 35 and a line 36,'contact 32 being directly connected with line 36. Contact 33 isconnected by a line 37 with a line 38 leading to the register 31, the line 35 is connected by line 39 with the register. It will therefore be seen that when the nickel bridges the contacts 32 and 33 it will close the circuit through the register and effect the counting of the fare.

When a dime is inserted in the machine it is necessary that the register be operated and that a nickel be returned to the passenger. For this purpose when the dime enters its aperture 14 and slides down its respective chute 20 it bridges a pair of contacts 40 and 41, contact 40 being directly connected with the aforementioned line 36. Contact 41 is connected by a line 42 with the coil 26 of the solenoid and arranged in ejecting relation to the tube 21 containing the nickels,

said coil being connected at 43 with the aforementioned line 35. Line 38 of the register is provided with a contact 44 and line 36 is provided with a contact 45. The cores 27 of the nickel, dime, quarter and half-dollar ejectors are provided with respective bridges 46, the bridge 46 of the nickel ejector being adapted to connect contacts 44 and 45 when the ejector is operated. It will therefore be seen that when a dime is placed in the machine it first effects the ejectionof a nickel change, and by the operation of that ejector eflects the closing of the gircuit through the register for counting the are.

W hen a quarter is inserted in the machine it drops through its respective aperture 17- and in passing down its chute 20 it bridges contacts 47 and 48, the former being directly connected to line 36. Contact 48 is connected by a line 49 with the coil 26 of the dime ejecting mechanism which is constructed of a size suflicient to expel two dimes at an operation; and the said ejector coil is connected by a line 50 with the aforementioned line 35. As the dime ejector is operated its bar or bridge 46 will connect a con tact 51 on the line 38 of the register with a con t 2 on. the a orem n on line 6. It

will thus be seen that when a quarter is insorted in the machine, it'will first effect operation of the dimes ejector to eject two dimes and in so doing will close the circuit ghrough the register 31 for counting the are.

When a half-dollar is placed inthe machine, it passes through the aperture 18 and in sliding down its respective chute 20 Will bridge the contacts 53 and 54, the former being directly connected to the aforementioned line 36, contact 54 being connected by a line 55 to the coil 26 of the quarter ejector, said coil being connected by a line 56 with the aforementioned line 35. The bridge 46 of the quarter ejector when'the latter is operated connects contact 57 on line 36 with a contact 58 on the aforesaid line 49 so that dimes ejector will thereupon be operated, and it will be remembered that when the dimes ejector is operated it automatically closes the circuit through the register. It will therefore be understood that the insertion of a fifty-cent piece efiects first the ejection of a quarter, then the ejection of two dimes, and then the operation of the register.

When a dollar is deposited in the machine it passes through the aperture 19 and in sliding down the respective chute 20 it bridges contacts 59 and 60, the former being directly connected with line 36 and the latter being connected-at a line 61 with the coil 26 of the half-dollar ejector, said coil being connected as at 62 with the line 35. The bridge 46 of the half dollar ejector, when the latter is operated, connects a contact 63 on line 36 with a contact 64 on the aforesaid line 55.

This effects operation of the quarter ejector which it will be remembered will automatically efiect operation of the dime ejector, the latter in turn automatically effecting operation of the register, so that a half dollar, a quarter and two dimes will be dropped into the pocket 12 and the register will be operated.

While I have described what I deem to be v the most desirable embodiment of my invention, it is obvious that many of the details may be varied without in any way departing from the spirit of my invention, and

end of said chutes, some of said chutes having their closed ends each providedwith registering slots formed in the walls thereof, U-shaped supports secured to the bridging strip and arranged in parallelism before the slotted chutes, a solenoid arranged between the arms of each, U-shaped support, a finger for each solenoid being operat-ively associated With the slots, and means in some of said chutes for operatin the fingers as and for 10 the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

ALOIS BURIAN. 

